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“Okay.” But I was convinced Catina remained alive. I didn’t know what game X was playing, but it wasn’t over yet. He’d done this for a reaction. And he’d get one. By Zeus, we’d obliterate him for doing this to Elyse, to her friend.
“I don’t know what to make of this,” she continued. “I mean, Persephone told me Hades isn’t in on this. But I don’t get how it happened. How does he know me, how does X know where to hit me?”
“You forget Hades and X both live in a place where the Fates often spend time. They can see a lot more than you think. He probably knew all about you long before any of this happened.”
Elyse sighed, her shoulders curling forward in defeat. “So, what now?”
“We don’t give up,” I said, giving her hand a gentle squeeze. “And I think Persephone’s right.”
She frowned. “Really? You don’t think Hades has anything to do with this either?”
I shook my head. My brother was a lot of things, but he wasn’t a monster, and the more I thought about all the lives X had taken, the more I knew it couldn’t have been Hades. I hadn’t seen what he did before I’d arrived, but Apollo told me Hades had killed Elyse to save her soul before X could kill her. If Hades meant to do harm, he wouldn’t have done that. Part of me beamed with joy that my brother wasn’t responsible for the atrocities committed by X. After everything we’d gone through, I intended to get my brother back, make good on our relationship.
“I think Hades is lost and confused, and that has serious repercussions, so, yes, I believe Persephone,” I mused. “My brother has been cheated into a life that makes him the bad guy. But if you really get to know him, you’ll realize he’s still a god. Not the devil.”
I couldn’t believe I was advocating for my brother, especially since I knew he cared for her. And I was sure she returned his feelings. But I had already shared her with two other men. What was a third?
And Hades deserved to be happy. After everything done to him, by me as well as others, he deserved some kind of happy ending. Even if that was with the same person bringing memyhappy ending.
Even if it meant sharing a little more of Elyse than I thought I’d have to when this all started.
We were all here to save the world. In the meantime, we’d found love. Would that love be forever? With a human? I didn’t know—Elyse was different. But it made sense what Heracles meant when he’d said he wanted no one else after losing his wife.
Could Elyse be the Megara for the rest of us?
